Rules, Rituals and Responsibility: Essays Dedicated to Herbert Fingarette (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780812691658)

Herbert Fingarett's achievements range from his assault upon the misconceived 'disease theory' of alchoholism, through social philosophy, philosophy of law, and philosophical psychology, to Chinese studies and Confucian thought.

Fingarette's major works include 'The Self in Transformation' (1963), 'Self-Deception' (1969), 'Confucius---The Secular as Sacred' (1972), and 'The Meaning of Criminal Insanity' (1972). His Book, 'Heavy Drinking: The Myth of Alchoholism as a Disease' (1988), transformed the public debate on alchohol treatment and made Fingarette the target of an intense barrage of abuse and vituperation from entrepreneurs in the alchohol-treatment industry.

'Rules, Rituals, and Responsibilities' contains Fingarette's intellectual autobiography, nine papers by leading scholars on different aspects of Fingarette's thought, and Fingarette's response to each of these papers.

Author: Mary Bockover
ISBN-10: 0812691652
ISBN-13: 9780812691658
Publisher: Open Court
Language: English
Published: 10/20/1999
Pages: 228
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.90lbs
Size: 8.98h x 6.04w x 0.64d